THEORY THREAD

FOE-tan said:
To send off the series in the most fitting manner possible, here is one last speculah I posted on TVTropes. It's pretty long and is about the origin of Walpurgis Night, something that wasn't properly answered in the actual series.

holyflamez said:


WoW i never thought of it that way i see where u going with this
but as AmberFebruary pointed out ,

Walpurgisnact is just a Witch, a Witch Queen, an overpowered witch if i may, and as Madoka said as the Walpurgis vanishes,

"It's enough.
You don't need to hold a grudge against anyone.
You don't need to curse anyone anymore.
I'll protect you before you even taken that form."

implying that she is a Mahou Shoujo once, and has been a Witch that powerful because she has chosen to curse the "world" itself. >.<

this kind goes with wat u saying in a way

FOE-tan said:
Well maybe the girl wished that she could destroy the earth and that no existing mahou shoujo would be able to stop her, and the Incubator granted her wish by fusing her with itself, giving her the perks of an Incubator such as being pretty much indestructible, which would explain why Homura would never be able to destroy her, no matter how hard she tried.

Since incubators don't understand human emotions, it probably thought that it would have enough control to contain her destruction in such a way it would be beneficial to the incubators, but found out it was powerless to stop her once she went insane from its attempts at restraint,.

Another incubator motif that Walpurgisnacht has are the red eyes, which are on a mechanical, unmoving face.

Or maybe Walpugisnacht was an Incubator who could feel emotions (Kyuubey did imply that Incubators like that might exist when he was talking about emotions being treated the same way as mental defects in Incubator society, but this is Kyuubey we are talking about.), gave itself mahou shoujo powers without realizing the consequences and became a witch, Incubator-style.

FOE-tan said:
Well, I changed my theory a bit since then. Walpurgis Night IS a witch, but it is an Incubator at the same time.

Of course, that would require an Incubator that could feel human emotions, but Kyuubey implied that Incubators with emotions existed when he was talking about how surprised they were when humans could co-exist despite their emotions. He implied this by saying that Incubators regarded emotions as a defect, thus implying that they saw emotions before they discovered humans, just at a much lower rate and with near-instant death. Of course, Kyuubey likes to imply things that are non-existent, but I don't see any need for him to avoid the truth on that particular matter.

So reading between the lines, there are some Incubators which are capable of feeling emotions like a human, but they are so rare that they can't be used as a reliable energy source, and the incubators in question are treated as defects by the normal, emotionless Incubators, and that will be the source of the despair turns them into a witch.They probably have the same powers as normal incubators, so they could probably empower themselves, which leads them to become witches.

The human witches gather around the Incubator witch as a central figure like how the mahou shuojo gather around a normal incubator, and also like the real Walpurgis Night.

Of course, this means Walpurgis gets incubator perks like the grief seed storage area (which could be used to become even more powerful) and the regeneration ability that Kyuubey has too, only stronger, which explains why Homura couldn't scratch Walpurgis, and justifies Kyuubey's confidence that she could never defeat Walpurgis, no matter how many timelines she travels to.